Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
My allegiance to subbing seems to have been for naught. Not one call to “the front” for more than a week, and I can’t imagine one coming with only two more days in the school year. I’m almost resolved to calling it a year with them...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
I almost missed the mention during the In Memoriam on This Week with George’ Sunday. Mark Harris was remebeered with a picture and about 12 words. The name hit me like a happy memory shared with a vaguely remembered name. The book most of the world ...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
I’m not going to counterpoint the Sunday news shows beyond saying BRAVO This Week with George the Greek! A SOLID SHOW!
The continued wringing of hands and gnashing of truth takes me back to the buildup of 2003. One of the most earnestly sculpted pil...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
It’s been a slower weekend than I would have preferred. On the positive side, I had time to post a bunch o’ pictures taken at Springfield Air Rendezvous “Soaring Into Summer” fundraiser party June 1. They may be found at
www.aerokn...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
There’s a terrific music group called Asleep at the Wheel; saw them on Austin City Limits a few years back. During Soar Into Summer, the Springfield Air Rendezvous fundraiser downtown last night, I thought I found them playing incognito as City Lim...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
But foist . . . . May’s blot is a minor high point for me. Dave Bakke’s article was the needed catalyst that moved me to vow (to myself) to post something at Honey & Quinine every day. Knowing Dave is a regular reader here is a kick for t...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
Pictured above: Lima Lima Flight Demonstration Team perforn at Springfield Air Rendezvous 2006.
If you have enjoyed any of the past 24 Springfield Air Rendezvous airshows from the first in 1983 to the last in 2006, you should attend the final SAR party, ...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
I’m between a roq and dust.
During the past few weeks, I’ve been blessed by a run of substitute teaching days that have generated MANNA — more accurately MONEY for manna — on a two week delay. The check arrives two weeks after tu...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
Let’s imagine your name is Robert, a fine name from the get-go. But an associate at work calls you Reeper. Dos this bother you We all hear the word Robert in our legalized American citizen’s lexicon of modern words, so are you annoyed that a ...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
I was old enough to serve in the Vietnam War, but I didn’t. When I thought I was flunking out of Springfield Junior College in December 1965, This was a year before it changed its name to Springfield College in Illinois. I visited the Air Force rec...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
Lawd hep me, I took notes during three Sunday news shows.
Based on my earlier proclaimed disinterest in the 2008 presidential campaign, I ALMOST blew off Meet the Press’s hour-long slog with New Mexico’s Governor Bill Richardson. But I’m...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
Anyone who senses the ironic disparity in the life of a writer who tips his kind of people about politics, the legal citizens’ American language, media, aviation and poetry while playing pay day roulette as a substitute teacher, would do well for th...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
The most engrossing, best-produced, most enjoyed Charlie Rose show I’ve watched concluded 10 minutes ago. I hope you will watch it when it is re-broadcast on Springfield, Illinois’ Public Broadcasting System’s WSEC Channel 8 TV Monday, M...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
The call came half-way through the Thursday SJ-R. I’ve gone three days without sub teaching this week, longest span for three weeks, so I hoped the 8:25 clarion was a harbinger of WORK. It was better.
It was the “lone arranger” from the ...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
I delayed visiting the bank yesterday to the last minute. I knew I wanted to be home in time for Fresh Air (WUIS, 3p) so I figured arrivin g at the bank at 2:15 would be about right. It was the only “right” I would be for the rest of the day.
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Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
A friend gave me subscriptions to Time and Newsweek this year. I don’t know why he did. My guess is that he didn’t know I’m a regular viewer of PBS and NPR whose unbiased news reporting is the best there is in the United Snakes of Americ...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
Monday was great until I came home. Spent a day subbing for a terrific Math/Computer Tech teacher at a major northeast Springfield high school. The pre-class conference with Mrs. P. who also introduced me to her husband, Mr. P. who also teaches there a fe...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
For the past six years, part of my back yard has been separated from the lwn by a line of branches and rotting yard timbers, and allowed to do whatever it wants to do. I call that part of my yard the Vine Street Nature Conservancy so well meaning libras ...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
Kudos to Meet The Press and guests Newt Gingrich and Democratic presidential candidate Chris Dodd for the most civil dialogue about damn near anything broadcast on TV since about 1972. Anyone familiar with The Mclaughlin Report (10 pm Fri WSEC Channel 8 S...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
The day Dave Bakke shared the story of Honey & Quinine in ihis fine column, I returned home from a half day of sub teaching to find two large bags inside my partially opened storm doon on the front porch. There were maybe ten bagels, four or five la...
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